James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
结尾反转略显刻意,电影的主题和情绪煽动性极强
反转反转再反转再反转。
校园腐败,司法腐败,政府腐败,
宿敌(豆瓣评分8.7)
电影题材是好的,但是大家没必要印吹和妄自菲薄
运镜,剪辑,推进……堪称凌乱毫无章法,
故事A:一场女性主义应援引发的骚动;
法庭上的几段话真的精彩,振聋发聩!可是几千年的糟粕真的很难改变。
文化要自信,先要放开约束,绑手绑脚怎么自信?绑人的在那喊自信有什么用?
表达的内容多且精彩,能把故事讲好,气氛到位铺垫够转折合理,又有本土特色,给个好评不过分吧。
起初以为是关于程序正义的片子,结果正邪的多次反转有点超乎预料。但学生群体真的是没看到长进,始终被情绪牵着走。总体而言是很有力量的片子,几首歌的歌词也都很好。
这是拍给印度人看的吗?不止,这是拍给人看的
每次看这种题材的印度电影都只有一个感觉:印度这个国家还有救。
4.警务系统、教育系统全方位的腐败 司法系统是唯一的救赎
“你们坐的椅子是有历史的,不是坐在上面的那些人的历史,而是站起来的那些人的历史。”年轻人们,站起来吧。反转过于频繁,情节密得过分,就很刻意,失去真实和震撼感。瑕不掩瑜,主题还是高分。
反转太多其实有点毁我的观感,但是律师掷地有声地喊话还是蛮让人感动,尤其是唐山事发后不久看这个片。“一个国家的尊严等于它给女性的尊严”
学会做减法是印度电影百尺竿头更进一步的最大难关。
好久没有静下心来看剧了,也看了不少印度电影,真的不错,至少人家敢说敢拍出来
2021有《杰伊·比姆》,2022有《宿敌》。两部针砭时弊的印度电影都极度震撼了我。我曾在其他影评中有这样一种观点,好电影能让人从犯困看到不困,差电影可以让人从不困看到犯困。我看本片时已经晚上10点了,已经有些困意了,但是一发而不可收拾,越看越精神,像兴奋剂注入了体内,有比咖啡还要强大的兴奋效果,再一次领略了优秀印度电影的强大感染力。
总有人说,印度电影可真敢拍啊,韩国人可真敢拍啊,我有点怀疑,有没有一种可能,在某些地方拍片子并不需要那么多勇气,不需要克服什么恐惧感,也不存在什么敢或者不敢,人家只是正常拍个电影而已。
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